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Getting a Cue: The Need to Belong and Enhanced Sensitivity to Social Cues
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To successfully establish and maintain social relationships, individuals need to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others. In the current studies, the authors predicted that individuals who are especially concerned with social connectedness--individuals high in the need to belong--would be particularly attentive to and accurate in decoding social cues. In Study 1, individual differences in the need to belong were found to be positively related to accuracy in identifying vocal tone and facial emotion. Study 2 examined attention to vocal tone and accuracy in a more complex social sensitivity task (an empathic accuracy task). Replicating the results of Study 1, need to belong scores predicted both attention to vocal tone and empathic accuracy. Study 3 provided evidence that the enhanced performance shown by those high in the need to belong is specific to social perception skills rather than to cognitive problem solving more generally.
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“This is consistent with early findings that following ostracism individuals would behave in ways that are more appealing to others to fortify their threatened social needs (Pickett et al., 2004;Lakin & Chartrand, 2005;William & Sommer, 1997).”
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“A desire for more belonging and/or self-esteem are best fortified by behaving in ways that are more appealing to others, such as working hard on a collective task (Williams & Sommer, 1997), attending carefully to information about others in your group (Pickett, Gardner, & Knowles, 2004), mimicking others' behaviors (Lakin & Chartrand, 2005;Ouwerkerk, Kerr, Galucci, & van Lange, 2005), or conform”
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“more lonely individuals show increased attention toward social cues (Gardner et al., 2005, Pickett et al., 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pickett, C. L., Gardner, W. L., & Knowles, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pickett, Cynthia L.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1095-1107
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2156039168
- Cited by
- 862
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 15.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (7r03mh065221-02)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH65221)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- need to belong, social connectedness, social sensitivity, social perception, facial emotion recognition, empathic accuracy, interpersonal relationships, individual differences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Attention, Color Perception, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Empathy, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Individuality, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Reading, Rejection, Psychology, Semantics, Social Conformity, Social Perception, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception
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